If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

I am not very fond of spotlight or even, for that matter, money. I appreciate the small things that give me joy. The most precious forms of happiness often come from things that money cannot buy.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.